This repetition: "I proceed to other passages of my narrative." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Mr. Bucket again exhibits his powers of discrimination with his three distinct bows to the three figures in Sir Leicester's drawing room; another contrast to Tulkinghorn's "indifference," although Bucket is inheriting T.'s position. #BleakHouse #APSTogether #APublicSpace
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"If they can't make me innocent out of the whole truth, they are not likely to do it out of anything less, or anything else. And if they are, it's worth nothing to me." George refuses a lawyer's representation. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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There is something of "bluff" Mr. George in Dmitry Karamazov. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Something rather obvious, but just occurred to me: Bucket and Tulkinghorn represent diametrically opposed methods of delving into secrets. Tulkinghorn by inscrutable indifference; Bucket by versatile sociability, being all things to all men. #BleakHouse #APSTogether #APublicSpace
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"You cannot catch old birds with chaff." Another saying new to me. While Dickens refers to the saying to disparage the fowls Mr. Bagnet has bought, might he also intend to praise further the wise "Old Girl"? #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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The "debilitated cousin" must be one source for the manner in which Monty Python's upper class twits speak. #APublicSpace #BleakHouse #APSTogether
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"Even while he whistles his impetuosity away with the national anthem [...]" (!) #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"It surely is a strange fact," he considers, "that in the heart of a civilized world this creature in human form should be more difficult to dispose of than an unowned dog." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"I felt for my old self as the dead may feel if they ever revisit these scenes. I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Skimpole: "In this family we are all children, and I am the youngest." [...] "So it is, and so it must be, because like the dogs in the hymn, 'it is our nature to.'" Isaac Watts, from a hymn written for children. #BleakHouse #APSTogether #APublicSpace
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Vholes's "official" cat is certainly his double as he waits patiently at the mousehole, but also seems to imply a "familiar" in so far as there's something diabolical about Vholes. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Mr. Vholes's desk is like a coffin inside a coffin. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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There was something in the picture of Mr. Turveydrop bestowing his deportment on Mr. Jellyby that quite took my fancy. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"And she kept her word?"
What a grim question. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"I am not like the starling; I get out."
Is Skimpole referring to _A Sentimental Journey_? Or is there an older starling story underlying Sterne? #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"Charley verified the adage about little pitchers, I am sure [...]"
Little pitchers have big ears. An old saying, but one I wasn't conscious of encountering before. #APublicSpace #APSTogether #BleakHouse
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Esther acts out the discipline she imposes on herself: "What more the letter told me needs not to be repeated here. It has its own times and places in my story." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Miss Summerson believed dead but alive. Lady Dedlock living dead. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Esther has kept her secret about Woodcourt about as well as she considered Ada and Richard had kept theirs before coming to confess to her. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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The old conspiracy to make me happy! Everybody seemed to be in it! #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"[...] she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"'George, hear me out!' says Mr. Bagnet, glancing at his wife. 'Old girl, go on!'" Mr. Bagnet takes care of phatic assertions like "Silence!" and leaves his message entirely to his wife, not knowing in advance what it will be, but that he will inevitably agree. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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From what Weevle describes, Krook treats his accumulation of scrap paper like a Kabbalist searching for the name of God in a genizah. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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Personal resonance (though I hope it will be more widely available before long): "Impelled by the mystery of which he is a partaker and yet in which he is not a sharer" is a formulation very close to a key phrase in #Iliazd's _PhiloSophia_. #BleakHouse #APSTogether #APublicSpace
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"I hope he found some consolation in walls. I almost think he did." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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The Jellyby closets (where there are, to be sure, umbrellas) bring to mind Lautréamont's "meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing machine and an umbrella," but the poet's absurd image winds up being more meaningful. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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So Esther's description of Mrs. Woodcourt captures what readers might be feeling about her right now: "At one time I thought she was a story-teller, and at another time that she was the pink of truth [...] very cunning [...] perfectly innocent and simple." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"...or perhaps because--but I need not be so particular."
Esther particularly evasive in her account of Woodcourt's mother's visit to Bleak House. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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"I don't know what it was. Or at least if I do now, I thought I did not then. Or at least--but it don't matter."
This we now recognize as characteristic Esther, at once sincere and disingenuous. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
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